テモテへの手紙第一 4

1 されど御靈あきらかに、或 人の後の日に及びて、惑す靈と惡鬼の教とに心を寄せて、信仰より離れんことを言ひ給ふ。

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons;

2 これ虚僞をいふ者の僞善に由りてなり。彼らは良心を燒金にて烙かれ、

Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

3 婚姻するを禁じ、食を斷つことを命ず。されど食は神の造り給へる物にして、信じかつ眞理を知る者の感謝して受くべきものなり。

Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them who believe and know the truth.

4 神の造り給へる物はみな善し、感謝して受くる時は棄つべき物なし。

For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving:

5 そは神の言と祈とによりて潔めらるるなり。

For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.

6 汝もし此 等のことを兄弟に教へば、信仰と汝の從ひたる善き教との言にて養はるる所のキリスト・イエスの良き役者たるべし。

If thou shalt put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished by the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.

7 されど妄なる談と老いたる女の昔話とを捨てよ、また自ら敬虔を修行せよ。

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] to godliness.

8 體の修行もいささかは益あれど、敬虔は今の生命と後の生命との約束を保ちて凡ての事に益あり。

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

9 これ信ずべく正しく受くべき言なり。

This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation.

10 我らは之がために勞しかつ苦心す、そは我ら凡ての人、殊に信ずる者の救主なる活ける神に望を置けばなり。

For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.

11 汝これらの事を命じかつ教へよ。

These things command and teach.

12 なんぢ年 若きをもて人に輕んぜらるな、反つて言にも、行状にも、愛にも、信仰にも、潔にも、信者の模範となれ。

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in deportment, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

13 わが到るまで、讀むこと勸むること教ふる事に心を用ひよ。

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

14 なんぢ長老たちの按手を受け、預言によりて賜はりたる賜物を等閑にすな。

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

15 なんぢ心を傾けて此 等のことを專ら務めよ。汝の進歩の明かならん爲なり。

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

16 なんぢ己とおのれの教とを愼みて此 等のことに怠るな、斯くなして己と聽く者とを救ふべし。

Take heed to thyself and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou wilt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.